Framework description: Establishing and maintaining a priority for setting the tone for communicating the institutional commitment to inclusiveness, building organizational capacity, attracting, and/or committing the resources to create change.  Holding the MSU community accountable for adoption of initiatives that allow MSU to anticipate and address the challenges of inclusiveness in the 21^st century and beyond.

• Incorporate UOE DEI initiative into AP Search. Create brief written material about UOE’s DEI initiative, and communicate to the AP search committee; Develop relevant questions for discussion with candidates.
• Identify a DEI Liaison to connect with the MSU IDEA coordinators.
• Make the DEI Committee permanent with a rotating membership and staggered terms.
• Develop a DEI Plan with goals, objectives, and indicators of progress.
• Develop written policies that integrate DEI into professional development, hiring (see HR existing policies), performance review, and onboarding, and have recommendations/suggestions for pronoun use
• When making decisions about which events or organizations to sponsor, consider the range of diversity
• Build stronger partnerships at the Office level with internal MSU units that collaborate on engaged scholarship with diverse groups (e.g., Diversity Research Network, Native American Institute, Chicano/Latino Studies, LBGT Resource Center, and more)
• Collect and analyze DEI data to inform activities and outcomes, including analyzing retreat survey by group, conducting an annual survey and reporting results over time, and using existing institutional data
• When selecting outside vendors, include review of businesses owned by women, people of color, veterans, and people with a disability, and/or located in Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) Zone
• Communication/messaging
  • Create a webpage on UOE website that publicly documents UOE DEI statement (as developed for search committee), plan, progress
  • Incorporate MSU land acknowledgement into communication, including on website
  • Reflect diversity in all materials that incorporate photography
  • When planning media releases, in addition to the main stream media, send releases to sources that serve minority audiences
  • Require microphone use for medium- to larger-sized rooms
  • Use best practices for accessibility in written and electronic materials/formats
  • When organizing events, ensure venues have reasonable accommodations for people with mobility, sight, and/or hearing issues
  • Ensure that a non-gender restroom is available at events
  • Identify designated nursing spaces for mothers at events
  • Provide attendees with a visible means to voluntarily share their preferred pronouns at UOE events if desired
  • Ensure that event registrations always ask whether participants have any special accommodation requests (including food) and to fulfill those requests as best as possible
  • Select dates for events that do not coincide with religious holidays in any faith